Pelin Cengiz, MD, professor, Division of Critical Care, and her team members Bikash Pattnaik, MD, associate professor, and Ryan McAdams, MD, professor, both in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, have been awarded $99,970 from the Meriter Foundation. This one-year award began in September 2024 and continues through August 2025. The study is entitled, “Healthy Little Eyes,” and aims to institute a novel technique to characterize eye function at birth for the diagnosis and prediction of neurodevelopmental outcomes of babies with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.